National Poetry Month (poetry contest and win one of my books!)

April is National Poetry Month. I have always been pulled in by rhyming sounds, expressions in A-B-A-B form, and with eloquent words. How a Maya Angelo poem can break your heart or a Robert Frost can transport you to another time. Into Emily Dickinson’s world and nod knowingly at one of Mary Oliver’s beautiful notes. The prose, the cadence, the way that poetry takes on emotion and vivid imagery in just a few lines or in a drawn out sonnet. I love that it doesn’t have to rhyme. It can be a sentence. It is a piece of one’s heart transferred to paper in a whim of bravery.

I am holding a poetry contest. No pressure, as of course like art, poetry creates itself and there is absolutely no right or wrong way to write poetry. Just write a sentence, or a rhyme, or a sonnet. Respond here, or on facebook (facebook.com/pumpkinhollowfarm) or by email (katie@pumpkinhollowfarm.net). Homeschooling mamas, have your children enter, you enter, if you have never written poetry, enter, let the expression free! I am offering a free book of your choice that I have written to the winner. The winner is the one that stirs my soul. Open March 31st-April 15th.

Here are two of mine I would like to share…

The first one is a tale of many young women. I am friends with a great many amazing young people and sometimes their struggles can overtake.

Katie Lynn Sanders is an urban Farmgirl, writer, Mama, Grammie, and herbalist. Katie lives with her husband, Gandalf the Great Pyrenees, kitties, and chickens with names in a hundred year old adobe in Pueblo. You can find all of Katie's books at www.AuthorKatieSanders.com